PHOTO EXHIBIT
Marcus
1001 OCEAN DRIVE, MIAMI BEACH
EXHIBIT OPEN DAILY FROM
JANUARY 6 - APRIL 31, 2016
10AM-5PM
(THURSDAY’S OPEN UNTIL 7PM)
Photos by Arthur Marcus, Temple
Menorah #2 (Miami Beach 2015)
Entry in to the Museum and Lecture is $5 (free for
students, teachers and Miami Beach residents)
Bhirtwish
THE ART OF ARCHITECTURE
The Miami Design Preservation League will have a photography
exhibit featuring architecture from Art Deco through modern day
featuring local photographers with a love for architecture.
P
hotographing architecture is a passion that
five artists including Arthur Marcus, Albert
Barg, Jeff Weisberg, Brandon Quarters, and
Vander Bhirtwish all share. Even though these
artists all appreciate architecture, they appreciate
it in different ways. Arthur Marcus is dedicated to
more of an abstract architecture, taking photographs of large entities such as buildings from the
mid 1940’s thru the mid 1960s, and removing
some of their contents to create new entities.
Albert Barg, Jeff Weisberg, and Brandon Quarters
are cousins, and it must run in the family, because
these artists are all dedicated to landscape architecture such as National Parks, even including
wild life at times. They also have a dedication
for the SOBE Art Deco District and its brilliant
structures. Vander Bhirtwish has dedicated his
architecture career to landscape, fashion, and art
deco. Each artist is unique in their own way and
their passion for architecture runs deep.
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ART DECO WEEKEND
The artists have all been very successful and
have had many accomplishments. Arthur Marcus
has maintained his current architectural studio for
the past 23 years in South Florida. With his selective visioning for architecture, he aims to infuse
a certain kinetic energy into the composition.
With Architecture as the palette upon which he
paints his photographs, light becomes the paint
brush giving the photograph its life; with shade
and shadow, lightness and darkness, contrast,
repetition, color, geometry and pattern as the
features which he aims to infuse into his photography. In 1999, he became associated with
the Urban Arts Committee of Miami Beach, the
organization charged with educating the public
regarding the til-then un-heralded local examples
of local mid-century modern architecture. ‘MIMO’
stands for Miami Modern and was the name that
the committee eventually labeled the local style
equivalent. In 2000, Arthur was one of three